Just for the record, US and Canadian tourist do need visas, it's just that the visa does not need to be arranged in advance, it is issued upon arrival.

As for the eight days, they count this day twice. For something happening Next Friday, they don't start counting with tomorrow (Saturday), but with today. Así: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday=8 days. But that same rendering, two weeks is 15 days, but what puzzels me is how 3 weeks is 20 days? Now they are no longer up a day, but down a day?

In Mexico, the X combines with the i to make the "ji" sound. But the x in Comex is pronounced like the x in Coixtlahuaca (which has no vowel to combine with).

Media noches--quien sabe, maybe we should phone Bimbo's 1-800 number and ask?

Just for the record, US and Canadian tourist do need visas, it's just that the visa does not need to be arranged in advance, it is issued upon arrival.

But that's the same visa that everyone has to have, and it doesn't have a charge. I was playing Devil's Advocate, suggesting that, particularly in the case of Canada who introduced the visa requirement more recently, Mexico should retaliate for Canada making Mexicans life more difficult!

Mexico only retaliated by making Canadian diplomats file an extra form or two coming into the country.

Mexico can't really do anything more about it.

Prior to needing visas, the number of Mexicans visiting Canada was in the thousands. Canada doesn't seem to care much about the lost tourist revenue as it isn't much. They do care about guest worker visas though...

The number of Canadians visiting Mexico each year is close to a million. Mexico competes with a lot of other tourist destinations for those visitors...

But that's the same visa that everyone has to have, and it doesn't have a charge. I was playing Devil's Advocate, suggesting that, particularly in the case of Canada who introduced the visa requirement more recently, Mexico should retaliate for Canada making Mexicans life more difficult!

It one time it was included in the price of your plane ticket. I always used to argue with them (occasionally with success) that I shouldn't have to pay it, since I don't need a visa. I don't know if that is still the case. There also used to be an airport tax that you had to pay, in cash. But that is going back a while. Maybe that is included in plane tickets too?

Just for the record, US and Canadian tourist do need visas, it's just that the visa does not need to be arranged in advance, it is issued upon arrival.

But that's the same visa that everyone has to have, and it doesn't have a charge. I was playing Devil's Advocate, suggesting that, particularly in the case of Canada who introduced the visa requirement more recently, Mexico should retaliate for Canada making Mexicans life more difficult!

Mexico needs both the tourism and the money that it brings from both the USA & Canada, while Canada and the US can enact much stricter restrictions on tourist visas without much worry.

In other words, any lost tourist revenue for the USA is worth it as the number of Mexicans (and others from the 3rd world) who overstay their tourist visas outweighs any benefits from possible legit tourism.